Good Night Kiss, The

By Jim Aylesworth

Popular author Jim Aylesworth offers parents and children a bedtime book with a unique ending--an invitation for them to share a good-night kiss. The soothing rhythm of this sequential story will... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689315155
• ISBN13: 9780689315152
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Atheneum
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 5.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 0.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 6 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 1

Customer Reviews

wonderfully pacing and pictures

I picked this up at a library book sale based on a quick look at the pictures. It has become one of our family's favorites for our two-year-old boy. Beginning with a frog peeking out from a lily pad, the book follows through beautiful full-page impressionistic style illustrations a chain of connections leading finally to a mother leaning over the close of a bedtime book to kiss her child goodnight. The frog leads for instance to a racoon, then to a deer, to an owl, to cars and trucks and trains and eventually to the penultimate snow-white moth that flies up to the bedroom window. The text has a wonderfully smooth and soothing pace to it, a nice rhythm and repetition of lines ("and when that frog" . . . "and when that racoon . . "). Visually and aurally, this is a wonderful book, especially obviously for bedtime.

The Good-night Kiss

I enjoyed reading the Good-night Kiss to my three year old daughter immensely. I am a mother of three and quiet alone time with an individual child is very important to me. This book has excellent soothing pitcures and as we are all snuggled up in her bed there is a tranquil effect.The story line in the book was enjoyable allowing my daughter to see things from a different aspect.The best thing about the book is that as it closes a tender kiss is shared (that I also give to my daughter)and a memory has been created.